Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Colleges like to compare themselves to Harvard, an Ivy League institution. Both Baylor University and Texas A&M have been called “Harvard-on-the-Brazos.” The last part of the name comes from Washington-on-the-Brazos, the place of Texas independence.

Wikipedia: Washington-on-the-BrazosWashington-on-the-Brazos was a settlement along the Brazos River in Texas, then part of Mexico, which was the site of the Convention of 1836 and the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The name “Washington-on-the-Brazos” was used to distinguish the settlement from “Washington-on-the-Potomac”.

On March 1, 1836, Washington, a small, ramshackle town built next to a ferry landing on the Brazos River became the birthplace of the Republic of Texas. It was here that delegates elected from each municipality in Texas convened in an unfinished building in near-freezing weather to declare Texas’ independence from Mexico, write a new constitution and organize an interim government.

The delegates declared independence on March 2, 1836. A constitution was adopted on March 16. The delegates worked until March 17, when they had to flee, along with the people of Washington, to escape the advancing Mexican Army. The townspeople returned after the Mexican Army was defeated at San Jacinto on April 21. Town leaders lobbied for Washington’s designation as the permanent capital of the Republic of Texas, but leaders of the Republic passed over Washington in favor of Waterloo, which later was renamed Austin.

wrote:
>A&M is also an excellent school, and has been rated by Texas Monthly
>magazine as the “best value in higher education in Texas.”

Yeah. That’s why we used to call it “Harvard on the Brazos.”

Dallas Morning News
April 28, 2006
Editor’s note: Baylor fans from across the nation and McLennan County have asked me to make a final plea for South Oak Cliff center Darrell “Slim Shady” Arthur to attend Baylor University, which you may know by its nickname - Harvard on the Brazos.

Houston Chronicle
Do you think Harvard on the Brazos (Baylor) will make a bowl? Lindsay Rutledge says hello.
Posted by: Mason at September 20, 2006 10:47 AM

BEVO Beat
November 20, 2006 01:27 PM
When that rag-tag, buzz-cut group from “Harvard on the Brazos” (Disfunction Junction) arrives in town, the Longhorns will have been up all night.